Conversion

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Conversion is the transformation, or change, of one thing into another. Conversion may refer to:

Finance

• Currency conversion or exchange rate
• Conversion (options), one of the options strategies

Law

• Conversion (law), conversion by taking a chattel out of the possession of another with the intent of exercising a permanent or temporary dominion over it, despite the owner's entitlement to use it at all Black's Law Dictionary.^[1]
  • Criminal conversion, exerting unauthorised use or control of someone else's property
• Equitable conversion, A change in the nature of property so that real property is treated as personal property, or vice versa, in certain circumstances Black's Law Dictionary.^[2]

Marketing

• Conversion (marketing), when a prospective customer takes the marketer's intended action
  • Conversion rate, in Internet marketing, the percentage of unique visitors who take a desired action upon visiting the website
  • Conversion funnel, in Internet marketing, the process of tracking website visitors conversion across a series of process steps.

Religion

• Religious conversion, the adoption of a new religious identity
  • Marital conversion, religious conversion upon marriage outside of religion
  • Deathbed conversion, done just before death
  • Forced conversion, done under duress
  • Secondary conversion, done because of a personal relationship

Sport

• Convert and Two-point conversion, in American football, an opportunity to score one or two extra points following a touchdown
• Conversion, in the sports of Rugby league and Rugby union, a kick at goal to convert the try from one set of points into another larger set of points
• Athletics (Track & Field), an estimate of what a performance which has been measured in one system of measurements would have been if it had been measured in the other system.

Science & technology

• Conversion of units, between different units of measurement
  • See also: Units conversion by factor-label and Dimensional analysis
• Conversion (chemistry) (disambiguation)
• Conversion (logic), a concept in traditional logic
• Electric vehicle conversion, modification of a conventional vehicle to battery electric
• Energy transformation or "energy conversion"
• Internal conversion, a radioactive decay process

Computing

• Convert (command), a shell command to convert volumes using the FAT file systems to NTFS
• CHS conversion, cylinder/head/sector to linear base address
• Code conversion, multiple meanings in telecommunication
• Type conversion, in computer science, changing an entity of one data type into another
• Data conversion, from one form of computer data to another
• upconversion of video to a higher definition
• ImageMagick, graphics manipulation program executed with the command: convert

Entertainment

• "Conversion" (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of the television series
• "The Conversion" (The Outer Limits), an episode of the television series

Other meanings

Conversion may also refer to:

• Conversion therapy, attempts to eliminate or diminish same-sex desires and behaviors
• Conversion (linguistics), the creation of a word from an existing word without any change in form
• Miniature conversion, altering the appearance of a model
• Conversion syndrome, a condition in which physical symptoms arise for which there is no clear explanation; cf. Conversion disorder

See also

• Wikipedia Template:Convert

References

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